Nuclear talks with Iran appeared set to crash through another deadline Tuesday night with U.S. officials saying several difficult issues still need resolving to seal the outlines of a final nuclear accord.

Nigerians chose a former military dictator and anticorruption crusader to lead Africa’s top economy, after a bruising election spotlighted the government’s struggle to tackle an Islamist insurgency and to spread its oil wealth more equitably across a deeply divided nation.

German airline gives prosecutors documents showing that Flight 9525 co-pilot Andreas Lubitz informed its flight school in 2009 of a “severe episode of depression” as France’s probe into the plane’s crash broadens to examine “systemic weaknesses” in flight security.

Nearly $4 billion was pledged Tuesday at a United Nations donor conference to help meet Syrian humanitarian need, but the total amount raised is still just slightly more than half of the organization’s requested funds for 2015.

Turkish special forces and hostage negotiators remained holed up in an Istanbul courthouse six hours after a left-wing group stormed the building and threatened to kill the prosecutor of a high-profile political case.

Turkey’s economy expanded by less than 3% in 2014, missing official targets and settling into a pattern of tepid growth just as the government tries to prevent further weakness before critical June general elections.

Hungary’s parliament Tuesday amended a law to allow the country to freeze assets of financial services firms, their top executives and auditors if losses over $180,865 occur as a result of criminal action.

SEOUL-South Korea on Monday named Korea Aerospace IndustriesLtd. as the preferred bidder of a multibillion-dollar deal to develop a new fighter jet.
The deal is part of one of South Korea's most ambitious weapons development programs. The project, known as KF-X, short for Korean Fighter Experimental, is part of Seoul's plans to replace a decades-old fleet of F-4s and F-5s.

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A coalition of Western nations is seeking new powers to curtail the trade of illicit antiquities after an explosion of looting in Syria and Iraq raised fears that the plunder finances Islamic State militants.

A medieval-history exhibition in Russia contends negative portrayals of Ivan the Terrible were ‘the first information war of Europe’s press,’ echoing current newsreels and raising the question if Russia’s often-bloody history is being whitewashed to fuel the Kremlin’s nationalist campaign.

In photos selected by Wall Street Journal editors on Monday, Iraqi security forces plant a flag as they surround Tikrit, a bulldozer clears a path to the Germanwings crash site and Afghans trek across rugged terrain into Pakistan.